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It's a pleasure to present the first two LPs by singer-songwriter Matt Dennis, who is a favorite around here, but had never been represented by one of his few albums. This post begins to set that right by offering Matt Dennis Plays Matt Dennis in a transfer from an original 1954 Trend pressing, along with his first RCA
Here from the original HMV pressings is Ralph Vaughan Williams' adaptation of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress , an important setting that is nonetheless neglected. I believe this 1970-71 production is its only complete recording. The work is certainly an opera, although the composer did not call it that, yet it ma
So much has been written about the life, career and legacy of the great Dolly Parton that anything I post here would approach the superfluous. But let me say a few words and post a few songs anyway, as a brief remembrance. For those who do not know her songs and singing, the photo above may be misleading. Dolly was kno
This post is a memorial tribute to the Romanian soprano Ileana Cotrubas, who had died at 87. She was a huge opera star for about 15 years before developing vocal problems and retiring in 1989. Cotrubas was known both for her affecting performances and for her uncompromising views, leading the adulation from critics and
The intensity you see in the photo of Victor de Sabata above is what you hear in his recordings. De Sabata (1892-1967) was a hugely gifted conductor, but circumstances denied him lasting fame - at least in the U.S. It was his misfortune to be a countryman and contemporary of perhaps the most renowned conductor of the d
I wanted to post a Ray Anthony record, and I will admit that I chose this one for its fun and very much of its time cover. Also, it goes very well with a previous Anthony upload called Houseparty Hop , which took place at a rather more rumbustious fraternity house (see below). The older LP has been newly remastered for
Today's post gathers all of Teddi King's recordings for the US Storyville label, made from 1953-55, before she signed with RCA Victor. These blogs have already chronicled some of her career: Her 1952 dates with George Shearing , along with a few of her earliest recordings with Nat Pierce's band Her 1954 Brunswick EP ,
The conductor Efrem Kurtz had a productive relationship with the New York Philharmonic throughout the 1940s, leading pops concerts at Lewisohn Stadium and recording principally light material with the ensemble. Today we have two LPs worth of the studio results - enjoyable readings of Kabalevsky's The Comedians and of t
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